Look Out Below…
Just as managed futures were starting to gain back some steam (see week in review here) with “risk on” long positions in energies, metals, stock indices, and currencies; Goldman Sachs goes and messes everything up with comments that they are exiting their long commodity trade…. (sure would be nice to be their prop desk and […]
Rules for Forex- Attain Style
One of our favorites, Josh Brown over at Reformed Broker, ventured into our world a little today with a post echoing what we’ve been saying for quite some time (here and here, for example): AVOID FOREX He points readers to a piece in Barrons over the weekend (Pitfalls of the Currency Casino), which digs into […]
Is Managed Futures an Asset Class?
Good piece by Mack Frankfurter of Cervino Capital over the weekend, an Attain recommended CTA, covering whether Managed Futures is an asset class or not… with an especially good paragraph from a 1993 paper by Lawrence Harris which described the different players in the trading world: “…value-motivated traders, inside informed traders, headline traders, event study […]
Weekend Reads
The first Friday of the month is here. The big story today is the potential shutdown of the government, with less than 9 hours remaining for Congress to find some kind of middle ground on an emergency bill to keep things afloat. While we watch the chaos unfold, here’s some reading to enjoy: What’s intrinsic […]
Can trading gains offset pain at the pump?
With Crude Oil up $2 more dollars today, it seems like just a matter of time until we see $5 per gallon gas in the US. (here in Chicago we’re already seeing $4.50 at some stations). Those of us in the managed futures industry usually have an odd take on price increases such as this, […]
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